Long story short im 30 and bipolar, major depressive, bad anxiety blah blah blah. I have a good job, friends, hobbies, exercise, etc. but finally got on meds and it has helped a lot. Only taking 25mg Zoloft (I know this is not usually used for bipolar but it has definitely helped keep me baseline and totally killed depression and suicidal thoughtS) but social anxiety still spikes for me. Should I legitimately consider Xanax or will it fuck me up that bad long term? I took it once with booze and it was the best id ever felt
Exposure therapy with a competent therapist would probably be less invasive. Even if your social anxiety improves on drugs, eventually you’re going to have to learn that your thoughts aren’t you. That takes therapy, and they won’t let you take Xanax forever
>>34852858I give presentations in front of hundreds of people, go out to clubs and stuff and have no problem conversating. But I always have this initial panic / anxiety. It's never gotten better and is always there
>>34852876Then you can ask for Xanax on a case-by-case basis, but no doctor is going to prescribe Xanax for more than a maximum of 4 months, because it’s one of those drugs where the physical withdrawal can kill you. At most, Xanax will be used as a stop gap while you try to find a combination of safer drugs that lowers your social anxiety without Xanax. That, or using it on a case-by-case basis.
>>34852842>drugs make me feel gooddon't read too much into it. only heavily hallucinogenic psychedelics can reprogram your mind, and that can be a rather unpleasant experience.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R3pfsUgtL9A&ra=m
>>34852842can't you just meditate on it instead how painful even is it you didn't clarify
>>34852976Ketamine isn’t a psychedelic and it’s the only drug used medically to” reprogram” patients in the sense of restoring brain plasticity. You can’t walk into a doctor’s office in the USA and ask for hallucinogens, but you can ask for ketamine if other drugs don’t work. Ketamine in a clinical setting is a lot safer for brain reprogramming than recreational hallucinogen use. John C. Lilly, practically the founder of human brain reprogramming, mainly used ketamine and isolation tanks
>>34852842Zoloft is shit, get on nortriptyline unless you have a heart condition in that case go fuck yourself because I don't know of any decent alternatives.
>>34852842You should just talk to people raw
